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Burkina Faso
Nickname(s)	Les Etalons; (The Stallions)
Association	Fédération Burkinabé; de Foot-Ball
Confederation	CAF (Africa)
Head coach	Paulo Duarte
Home stadium	Stade du 4-Août
FIFA code	BFA
FIFA ranking	55
Highest FIFA ranking	50 (June 2009)
Lowest FIFA ranking	127 (December 1993)
Elo ranking	102
Home colours	Away colours
First international
	Upper Volta 5 - 4 Gabon ; (Madagascar; 13 April 1960)
Biggest win
	Burkina Faso 4 - 0 Mozambique ; (Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso; 7 June 2003)
Biggest defeat
	Algeria 7 - 0 Upper Volta ; (Algeria; 30 August 1981)
African Nations Cup
Appearances	6 (First in 1978)
Best result	Fourth place, 1998

The Burkina Faso national football team, nicknamed Les Etalons (The Stallions), is the national team of Burkina Faso and is controlled by the Fédération Burkinabé de Foot-Ball. They were known as the Upper Volta national football team until 1984, when Upper Volta became Burkina Faso. Their best finish in the African Nations Cup was fourth in 1998, when they hosted the tournament. Even though they missed the 2006 World Cup, they were the only team in the qualification who beat the group winners Ghana, 1-0 at home.

[edit] World Cup record

1930 to 1974 - Did not enter
1978 - Did not qualify
1982 - Did not enter
1986 - Did not enter
1990 - Did not qualify
1994 - Withdrew
1998 to 2010 - Did not qualify

[edit] African Nations Cup record

1957 to 1965 - Did not enter
1968 - Did not qualify
1970 - Withdrew
1972 - Withdrew
1974 - Did not qualify
1976 - Did not enter
1978 - Round 1 (as Upper Volta)
1980 - Did not enter
1982 - Did not qualify
1984 to 1988 - Did not enter
1990 - Did not qualify
1992 - Did not qualify
1994 - Withdrew during qualifying
1996 - Round 1
1998 - Fourth place
2000 - Round 1
2002 - Round 1
2004 - Round 1
2006 to 2008 - Did not qualify
2010 - Qualified

[edit] Current squad

The following players were called for 2010 FIFA World Cup qualification against Malawi on November 14, 2009.

No.	Pos.	Player	DoB (Age)	Caps	Goals	Club
1	GK	Daouda Diakité	30 March 1983 (1983-03-30) (age 26)	10	0	Mokawloon Al-Arab
16	GK	Adama Sawadogo				Faso-Yennega
	GK	Sylvain Kaboré				Stade d'Abidjan

3	DF	Ibrahim Gnanou	8 December 1986 (1986-12-08) (age 22)	4	0	Alania Vladikavkaz
4	DF	Mamadou Tall	4 December 1982 (1982-12-04) (age 26)	27	0	União de Leiria
6	DF	Bakary Koné	27 April 1988 (1988-04-27) (age 21)	9	0	Guingamp
17	DF	Paul Kéba Koulibaly	24 March 1986 (1986-03-24) (age 23)	13	0	Al-Ittihad
	DF	Moussa Ouattara	31 December 1981 (1981-12-31) (age 27)	26	0	Kaiserslautern
	DF	Saidou Panandetiguiri	22 March 1984 (1984-03-22) (age 25)	29	1	União de Leiria
	DF	Robert Sakara				Stade d'Abidjan

2	MF	Abdoul Aziz Nikiema	12 June 1985 (1985-06-12) (age 24)	10	1	Qingdao Jonoon
5	MF	Mohamed Koffi	30 December 1986 (1986-12-30) (age 22)	1	1	Petrojet
7	MF	Florent Rouamba	31 December 1986 (1986-12-31) (age 22)	15	1	Sheriff Tiraspol
8	MF	Mahamoudou Kéré	1 February 1982 (1982-02-01) (age 27)	31	2	Charleroi
11	MF	Jonathan Pitroipa	12 April 1986 (1986-04-12) (age 23)	15	2	Hamburg
18	MF	Charles Kaboré	9 February 1988 (1988-02-09) (age 21)	15	1	Marseille
	MF	Alain Traoré	31 December 1988 (1988-12-31) (age 20)	9	2	Auxerre
	MF	Boureima Maïga	15 November 1983 (1983-11-15) (age 26)	2	0

9	FW	Moumouni Dagano	1 January 1981 (1981-01-01) (age 28)	42	21	Al-Khor
10	FW	Habib Bamogo	8 May 1982 (1982-05-08) (age 27)	1	1	Nice
12	FW	Abdoulaye Cissé	24 December 1983 (1983-12-24) (age 25)	12	3
13	FW	Issouf Ouattara	7 October 1988 (1988-10-07) (age 21)	6	1	União de Leiria
14	FW	Patrick Zoundi	19 July 1982 (1982-07-19) (age 27)	12	0	Düsseldorf
15	FW	Narcisse Yaméogo	19 November 1980 (1980-11-19) (age 29)	17	4	Mughan
	FW	Alhassane Ouédraogo	7 September 1980 (1980-09-07) (age 29)	28	0	VdV
	FW	Aristide Bancé	19 September 1984 (1984-09-19) (age 25)	10	2	Mainz
	FW	Yssouf Koné	19 February 1982 (1982-02-19) (age 27)	9	3	Cluj

[edit] Recent Call-ups

No.	Pos.	Player	DoB (Age)	Caps	Goals	Club
	GK	Mohamed Diarra				Racing Bobo
16	GK	Amadou Séré	30 December 1987 (1987-12-30) (age 21)	0	0	Kadiogo
	DF	Stéphane	5 July 1989 (1989-07-05) (age 20)	0	0	Olhanense
	DF	Aly Zoungrana				Faso-Yennega
15	DF	Joël Venceslas Kouassi	25 October 1981 (1981-10-25) (age 28)	9	0	Libourne-Saint-Seurin
5	DF	Soumaila Tassembedo	27 November 1983 (1983-11-27) (age 25)	22	0	unattached
4	DF	Lamine Traoré	31 December 1982 (1982-12-31) (age 26)	16	0	Gençlerbirliği
13	MF	Salif Dianda	17 December 1987 (1987-12-17) (age 21)	1	0	Verona
	MF	Bèbè Kambou	1 July 1982 (1982-07-01) (age 27)	15	0	Cherbourg
	MF	Ousseni Zongo	6 August 1984 (1984-08-06) (age 25)			FC Arouca
4	FW	Yahia Kébé	11 July 1985 (1985-07-11) (age 24)	6	2	Troyes
	FW	Pan Pierre Koulibaly	24 March 1986 (1986-03-24) (age 23)	3	0	Al Ittihad Tripoli
	FW	Dieudonné Minoungou (Friendly v. Bahrain, 20 August)	25 June 1981 (1981-06-25) (age 28)	7	3	Ryūkyū
15	FW	Kamado Ouédraogo (WCQ v. Burundi, 7 June)	17 March 1983 (1983-03-17) (age 26)	1	0	Arles-Avignon
2	FW	Wilfried Sanou	16 March 1984 (1984-03-16) (age 25)	14	3	Köln